Do you suffer from guilt by caloric association? Do you harbor lust in your gut for some secret food that you only eat when you’re feeling thin, or on those rare occasions when you can get into your clothes without pushing the limits of Newtonian physics and a forklift? Perhaps you like to reward yourself when you’ve gone light on dinner for a few days, or ran an extra mile that morning, or finally decided you look good in a 52 short. Yes when those times come around, and that forbidden craving hits you, there’s just one thing to do. As Oscar Wilde put it: the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
CAJUN BBQ SHACK
RAGIN’ CAJUN
Ask and you shall receive. And so ELV did, from a number of KNPR listeners recommending places we should try and review. Dangerous business this, as ELV knows not from whence your motivation comes. Is it validation for your own tastes you seek? Or perhaps a little game of mock the critic and watch him demean himself, and get heartburn to boot!
It was thoughts such as these that occupied me as we crept way down Las Vegas Boulevard South to a place near the South Point Casino (a side of town where gourmands fear to tread, and where you’ll find ELV as often as you will at a bowling alley.) But promises had been made and gauntlets thrown; so follow through we must.
You heard it here first – BURGERS AND HALF-BOTTLES coming
According to a very highly placed source at the Venetian, Thomas Keller will soon bring his Burgers and Half-Bottles concept (still not opened in Yountville, CA) to the Venetian. It will occupy the space formerly occupied by the gone-but-not-missed Lutece, and will have outdoor dining and pedestrian access directly off of Las Vegas Blvd South (i.e. The Strip). In these downscaled economic times, ELV thinks this is a wise move.